Provisioning

On Sunday, Claudia Roden will join Jane Kramer at the Culinary Loft for a meal and conversation. In her Profile of Roden for the magazine last year, Kramer describes the culinary writer:

Roden, at seventy, is one of the most revered writers in what the British call “cookery.” She is the youngest, and last, of a triumvirate of hungry, highly literate, and ethnographically indefatigable women who helped transform how Britain cooked, and what it cooked, persuading the domestically challenged bourgeoisie of the postwar years that the taste of a good soup held a world of history and culture, and that the pleasures of the table did not stop at the shores of Albion but, in all likelihood, began there.

I tagged along with Roden and Tageré Southwell, a freelance chef who will be assisting Roden this weekend, as they shopped for the meal.